Test 3 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings
Marvel's Thor is a superhero with a big smile. What was Thor for the Vikings?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thor · What happens: be · To what, where: superhero, Thor
This is test 3 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Marvel's Thor is a superhero with a big smile.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marvel | Marvel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Thor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Marvel | case |
| 3 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 superhero | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 superhero | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 superhero | det |
| 6 | superhero | superhero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 smile | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 smile | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smile | amod |
| 10 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 superhero | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 superhero | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Marvel's Thor | a superhero | with a big smile | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What was Thor for the Vikings?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Thor | cop |
| 3 | Thor | Thor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Vikings | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Vikings | det |
| 6 | Vikings | Viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Thor | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Thor | for the Vikings | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A Greek hero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 2 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hero | amod |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A god of the old myths, quite different from the films
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 different | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 myths | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 myths | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 myths | amod |
| 6 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 god | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 different | advmod |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 films | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 films | det |
| 12 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 different | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A Roman soldier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A real Norse king who ruled Denmark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 3 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ruled | nsubj |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | a real Norse king | Denmark | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent denmark=Result |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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